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South of Santa Fe · Beat 225 · permalink

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48:38–48:41 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:4048:40

Play from 48:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 445–445. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and coat, holding a rope visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat and coat stands outdoors holding a rope. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1], coat [frame:1], rope [frame:1], foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, identity, outdoor confrontation; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, high contrast black-and-white, outdoor night scene

A man in a hat and coat stands outdoors at night holding a rope, while an off-screen voice asks who he is. The setting is dark with foliage visible, and no on-screen text or named characters appear.

“Say, who's that?” 48:39 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from South of Santa Fe (1942) at 48:40 (passage 48:38–48:41); US record: No renewal found

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